A Mercy Toni Morrison

A Mercy

Author: Toni Morrison
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Book Title
A Mercy
Author
Toni Morrison
ISBN
9780307276766
A national best seller, deemed "one of Morrison's most haunting works," A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Toni MorrisonPublisher: VintagePublished: 08/11/2009ISBN: 9780307276766Pages: 195Weight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70dReview Citations: People Weekly 08/10/2009 pg. 49Commonweal 06/18/2010 pg. 28Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128034 / MercyReading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 7

A national best seller, deemed "one of Morrison's most haunting works," A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/11/2009
ISBN: 9780307276766
Pages: 195
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: People Weekly 08/10/2009 pg. 49
Commonweal 06/18/2010 pg. 28

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128034 / Mercy
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 7

A national best seller, deemed "one of Morrison's most haunting works," A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/11/2009
ISBN: 9780307276766
Pages: 195
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: People Weekly 08/10/2009 pg. 49
Commonweal 06/18/2010 pg. 28

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128034 / Mercy
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 7